I think a lot about how mountain species are responding to warming temperatures so it was great to team up with @suzetteflantua.bsky.social @kjfeeley.bsky.social Christi McCain & Jenny McGuire to write a review of sp responses to both modern AND Quaternary warming www.nature.com/articles/doi...

An exciting day today. Our work, co-led by @mhanusch.bsky.social and @thomasdussarrat.bsky.social was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. In this review, we explore the concept of chemodiversity and what role it could play for ecological functions at landscape-level. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Ecological role of emergent properties in the chemodiversity landscape - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Many biotic interactions occur via chemical compounds released in the environment. Here the authors review the field of chemical ecology and discuss the importance of investigating landscape-scale che...

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From living to fossil: ancestral state reconstruction of leaf architecture in extant Lauraceae & its relevance for the fossil record onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We just published a global synthesis of mountain glacier extent during the last ice age! #LGM www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com Led by marvellous ECR Augusto Lima @ac-lima.bsky.social mountainsinmotion.w.uib.no @mohnfoundation.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no #UIB-BIO 🧵👇

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Biodiversity resilience in a tropical rainforest - Nature

Assessment of how 16 taxonomic groups in a lowland tropical forest resist and recover from anthropogenic disturbance shows the potential of protecting naturally regenerating secondary f...

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New paper! A checklist of the plants endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands (S Indonesia and Timor-Leste). For conservation we need to know where these plants are and if they are threatened, and we know so little about either. 51 species haven't been seen in >120 years! doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

Seems like a pretty important result; title says it all. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oxygen supply through the tracheolar–muscle system does not constrain insect gigantism - Nature

New evidence suggests that diffusive oxygen transport through the tracheolar–muscle system is not the limiting factor on insect body size.

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📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy! Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X27... with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social

The extreme unevenness in the completeness of the stratigraphic, and by implication fossil, record is formed by many processes. Apparently the most profound gap— the Great Unconformity, is driven by tectonics. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

New interactive global maps of 31 plant traits were prepared by Daniel Lusk, based on plant distribution data from GBIF and sPlot, plant trait data from TRY, and various satellite-based products. Map viewer: global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-... Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Wonderful experience to present my poster on how biomes structure global biodiversity at #TIBS2026 this week in #Aarhus! I had great discussions with a group of creative #Biogeography researchers. Thanks for all that reach out and exchange ideas. See you in #Beijing in 2028!

@wennading.bsky.social from the DME lab presented her great work at #TIBS2026 on the origin of mountain floras in response to biotic assembly, orogeny and climate change. If you are interested, her is the latest paper on the topic: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Interesting talk by @nezimmermann.bsky.social from our DME lab today at #TIBS2026 on a new conceptual framework on #BiomeBiogeography. This concept is at the core of our #biome project, in which several lab members are involved.

New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Climate change has already reshaped the bioclimatic space of extreme events in the Arctic 🌐❄️ Arctic biodiversity has entered a new era of bioclimatic extremes w/ more droughts, greater winter-warming 📈 & more rain-on-snow events 💧❄️ shorturl.at/pQsVP Just published in Science Advances ⬇️

A new era of bioclimatic extremes in the terrestrial Arctic

Long-term climate data suggest that the Arctic is entering a new era of bioclimatic extremes threatening cold ecosystems.

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I’ll be presenting my work: Biome.jl, a flexible package for mechanistic biome simulations at poster 1052 today of #TIBS2026, come chat with me!

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Our participants at #TIBS2026 are fully engaged, sharing an energetic coffee break while exploring the posters early on.

Elena Plekhanova from @wsl-dme.bsky.social just gave a very interesting talk on how to use #AI in combination with #RemoteSensing to map global #biomes. #Macroecology #Biodiversity #Mapping @wslresearch.bsky.social

Our latest: Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history, led by @meleonora-rossi.bsky.social with help from friends @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social including @anariesgo.bsky.social @evopalaeo.bsky.social Davide Pisani and many others

Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history

Sponges have a cryptic Ediacaran history because ancestral sponges were soft-bodied and had low fossilization potential.

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Next week we host the #TIBS2026 #biogeography conference @au.dk, welcoming ~400 biogeographers from around the world🌍Biogeography is vital for understanding the #biosphere & guiding planetary #stewardship. Looking forward to an inspiring week🌤️🌴https://conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-2026 #biodiversity

Hopping Hotspots Shaped the Global Biogeography and Diversification of Orectolobiform sharks 🦑🧪🐟🦈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

How have mountain building and climate change shaped alpine biodiversity over millions of years? Check out our new study in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The asynchronous rise of Northern Hemisphere alpine floras reveals general responses of biotic assembly to orogeny and climate change

The asynchronous rise of Northern Hemisphere alpine floras was shaped by general responses to orogeny and climate change.

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#Evolution of #conifer seed cones 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #TansleyReview by @kmatsunaga @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Our latest paper on fish communities in nearly 80 peri-alpine lakes reveals that community assembly through immigration and speciation respond to different dimensions of ecosystem size: area and depth respectively. Check it out here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BKFKRT...

🍂🌳 #PhDAlert! MSc in #EnvironmentalSciences or a related field and interested in plant #phenology and #ecophysiology? Good level of fitness to carry out field work in remote locations? Our #Ecosystem #Ecology group offers a #PhD position: apply.refline.ch/273855/1789/... #ScienceJobs

Really happy to see chapter 2 of my PhD published today in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. DeepDiveR is an R package to assist with deep learning inference of biodiversity change through time 🤿🦊 Thanks to @bethanyjallen.bsky.social & Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration doi.org/10.1111/2041...

What a fantastic new paper out today in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... - and what a great resource, summarising the climatic niche of primates and tackling the hypothesis on whether primates evolved in warm tropical forests 😍

The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates | PNAS

One of the most influential hypotheses about primate evolution postulates that their origin, radiation, and major dispersals were associated with e...

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📱🌱 Plant identification apps are booming – but which one is the best? And how reliable are the results? 🤔 Our researchers collected over 5,000 photos of 560 Swiss plant species from 85 habitat types and tested the most popular apps.🔎 Here are the findings: shorturl.at/lD0Cl

🌿 Join Our Team as Postdoctoral Researcher in Regional Climate Downscaling at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Switzerland and lead the development of regional, highresolution climate scenarios for Armenia. @wslresearch.bsky.social @wsl-dme.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/273855/1747/...

@clechartre.bsky.social reimplemented #BIOME4 into a modular, high-performance #Julia version, enabling 1 km vegetation modeling 🌱 and integration of #CHELSA climate datasets. 🌦️ We can now simulate biome patterns across complex terrains ⛰️ and define biome boundaries with greater accuracy. 🎯

A global analysis shows consistent energy–diversity relationships across birds, mammals, amphibians & reptiles, resolving decades of ecological debate. Paper now out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌍🌐 #ecology #MetabolicTheory